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kenner Name Meaning and History

  1. German and Jewish (Ashkenazic): from Kenner ‘connoisseur’ (from kennen ‘know’), hence a nickname for someone considered to be knowledgeable or an expert of some kind; it may also have been used ironically to denote a ‘know-all’.
  2. German: habitational name for someone from Kenn, near Trier.
  3. German: topographic name for someone living near a water pipe or channel, from Middle High German kener ‘water channel’, ‘drainage pipe’.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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Distribution of kenner Families in the US in 1920
Number of kenner families
 30-57
 11-29		 1-10
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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Kenner relations Missouri Debbie 7
Richard Kenner from Kirksville, MO. davidkenner1 3
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Winfred Wells KENNER, b. 1894 Peggy Kopp 0
Andrew Helm Kenner juju284 2
SOUTH CAROLINIAN KENNERS neadakenner 2
Kenner from Morrisville, PA bjerke53 0
Kennor?? Robert 6
Elias Kenner Autobiography twilson555 4
INA KENNER srmangelica 1
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